WHAT EATS A TIGER?

by admin on April 6, 2010

What Eats A Tiger?

What eats tigers?

What do tigers eat?

Sometimes, a leopard might kill and eat a very young tiger.

But the tiger is an apex predator, which means that it is at the very top of the food chain, and at the very center of the food web. Tiger eat many other animals, but no other animals eat full-grown tigers.

Occasionally, a pack of wild jungle dogs will kill a tiger in a fight over food, but the dogs do not attack the tiger in order to eat it. A full-grown tiger can injure and kill many wild dogs before the tiger itself is injured or killed, so wild dogs usually stay far away from tigers.

As for the question, what do tigers eat?—tigers eat any animal they can catch in the forest, from small rodents and reptiles to the biggest four-footed creatures.

An OMNIVORE is an animal that mixes vegetation and other animals into its diet.

FOOD WEBS!

Food Webs Are Maps Of What Eats What, And Who Eats Whom! Below, You'll Find Links To Several Food Webs.

ALL FOOD ENERGY STARTS WITH THE SUN

A food web—every food web—begins with sunlight. Plants turn that sunlight into usable food energy, and that energy is transfered to the herbivorous animals that eat those plants. When those plant eating animals are themselves eaten by predators, the energy is transfered higher up the food chain and becomes concentrated in the bodies of the top, or apex, predators.
The apex predators return energy to the food web after they die and their bodies are consumed by scavengers, fungi and microbes.